Kuwait: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al Ghanem has drawn up a draft law proposing a lasting solution to the decades-old problem of stateless people or bedoons.
“The legislation if approved will resolve the problem in one year,” he said, providing no details about the draft law, saying that a number of lawmakers asked to give them a week to read the bill before officially submitting it.
Some 120,000 bedoons live in Kuwait currently and claim the right to Kuwaiti citizenship, while the government insists that most of them do not qualify to be considered for nationality.
The speaker also said that a second draft law will be submitted to initiate a probe into Kuwaiti citizenship in order to fight forgery and wrongdoing.
The government has repeatedly said that only up to 34,000 bedoons qualify for consideration for citizenship but has made no effort to naturalise them.
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